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Rodgers: Everton are proof that money does not always matter
Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers at Everton's Goodison Park in July 2020

LEICESTER boss Brendan Rodgers cited Everton’s Premier League plight today as evidence that money alone cannot bring success.

The Foxes head for Goodison Park this evening to face a club engaged in a desperate fight for top-flight survival despite investing in excess of £560 million in new players over the last six years or so.

Asked what had gone wrong on the blue half of Merseyside, former Liverpool boss Rodgers said: “It’s well-documented there’s a lot of money been spent — a lot of money — but if it doesn’t all join up, then it doesn’t really matter.

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